Comments on: Super Slick Lifestreaming with Intuuch http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/ News, reviews, & tips for creating a Lifestream Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee Sherman http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-547 Lee Sherman Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:32:01 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-547 My initial enthusiasm has waned a bit. The developers have been unresponsive to the many problems I've been having with intuuch and haven't answered my many questions. I have gone back to letting third-party Facebook apps update my newsfeed and mini-feed. My main gripe with intuuch is that I can't figure out how you add friends streams and although they have a Facebook app, your friends there don't seem to be linked in any way to your friends on intuuch. In other words, my wife and I both have intuuch accounts, we both have intuuch installed on Facebook, and yet we can't see each others streams and I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it work (and I'm a tech journalist with 15 years experience with this stuff). Have you seen FriendFeed. This new lifestreaming platform, from ex Googlers seems to address many of the issues raised here (they do link back to the original source and they seem to have a much better handle on the viral aspects of adding friends. They have solid backing as well so I'm placing a bet that they'll be around in the future and I'm not so sure about intuuch. Maybe it is just that they are in Europe and I'm in the States but communication with them has been more difficult than I would've hoped. My initial enthusiasm has waned a bit. The developers have been unresponsive to the many problems I’ve been having with intuuch and haven’t answered my many questions. I have gone back to letting third-party Facebook apps update my newsfeed and mini-feed. My main gripe with intuuch is that I can’t figure out how you add friends streams and although they have a Facebook app, your friends there don’t seem to be linked in any way to your friends on intuuch. In other words, my wife and I both have intuuch accounts, we both have intuuch installed on Facebook, and yet we can’t see each others streams and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it work (and I’m a tech journalist with 15 years experience with this stuff).

Have you seen FriendFeed. This new lifestreaming platform, from ex Googlers seems to address many of the issues raised here (they do link back to the original source and they seem to have a much better handle on the viral aspects of adding friends. They have solid backing as well so I’m placing a bet that they’ll be around in the future and I’m not so sure about intuuch. Maybe it is just that they are in Europe and I’m in the States but communication with them has been more difficult than I would’ve hoped.

]]> By: Library clips :: Roundup : Intuuch, xobni, DocStoc, Utters, Treedolist :: September :: 2007 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-538 Library clips :: Roundup : Intuuch, xobni, DocStoc, Utters, Treedolist :: September :: 2007 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:36:41 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-538 [...] Intuuch - yet another lifestream service, how many of these can we handle…anyway it has a nice and clear interface, very twitter like. Add Intuuch friends and view a friendstream…also has an easy widget, and facebook app. On each user space there are links to all the users profiles, unfortunately you can’t limit the stream to one of these services or a selection. Just to compare, other lifestream services have private messages, and even internal note blogging features. [via Lifestream blog] [...] [...] Intuuch – yet another lifestream service, how many of these can we handle…anyway it has a nice and clear interface, very twitter like. Add Intuuch friends and view a friendstream…also has an easy widget, and facebook app. On each user space there are links to all the users profiles, unfortunately you can’t limit the stream to one of these services or a selection. Just to compare, other lifestream services have private messages, and even internal note blogging features. [via Lifestream blog] [...]

]]> By: Lee Sherman http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-534 Lee Sherman Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:20:35 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-534 Readr is pretty good but I think the Twitter-like interface of Intucch will be easier for people to adopt. A lot of the other lifestreaming services treat a lifestream like it is a blog. I personally want something much simpler and transportable (which is why I am calling for RSS out). Plaxo is on the right track with Pulse. Readr is pretty good but I think the Twitter-like interface of Intucch will be easier for people to adopt. A lot of the other lifestreaming services treat a lifestream like it is a blog. I personally want something much simpler and transportable (which is why I am calling for RSS out). Plaxo is on the right track with Pulse.

]]> By: Lee Sherman http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-533 Lee Sherman Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:15:12 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-533 As a followup to my earlier comment. Since Facebook apps give you the option not to have information reflected in the newsfeed and mini-feed I have decided to experiment with going the other way round and letting intuuch handle the job for those services it supports. I'll report back on how it's going. The big advantage is that you then have a working lifestream outside of Facebook (which unfortunately excludes Facebook info) that you can direct people too. Seems like the best of both worlds. As a followup to my earlier comment. Since Facebook apps give you the option not to have information reflected in the newsfeed and mini-feed I have decided to experiment with going the other way round and letting intuuch handle the job for those services it supports. I’ll report back on how it’s going. The big advantage is that you then have a working lifestream outside of Facebook (which unfortunately excludes Facebook info) that you can direct people too. Seems like the best of both worlds.

]]> By: Elroy Jetson http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-532 Elroy Jetson Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:12:36 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-532 You might want to also check out Readr it is pretty nice also. (http://readr.com/u/elroyjetson) You might want to also check out Readr it is pretty nice also. (http://readr.com/u/elroyjetson)

]]> By: Mark http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-531 Mark Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:07:24 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-531 Lee, thanks for providing some great additional info there. Ozten, that's true, they should provide links to the profile home pages for each source a user has provided. Lee, thanks for providing some great additional info there.

Ozten, that’s true, they should provide links to the profile home pages for each source a user has provided.

]]> By: Ozten http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-530 Ozten Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:23:05 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-530 Looks interesting. Thanks for the review. It is disappointing that Intuuch doesn't have links back to the origional sources. Like there is no link to http://del.icio.us/krynsky next to the Apple store link. Looks interesting. Thanks for the review. It is disappointing that Intuuch doesn’t have links back to the origional sources. Like there is no link to http://del.icio.us/krynsky next to the Apple store link.

]]> By: Lee Sherman http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-529 Lee Sherman Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:33:14 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-529 In general I agree with your review. Intuuch is a nicely implemented approach to lifestreaming. You don't mention the filtering, which allows you to hide any feeds you don't want to show. I haven't had the issues with data not showing up but I have run into some issues with the Facebook app. Because I already use Facebook apps such as the official del.icio.us app, I am getting duplicates in my newsfeed and mini-feed. I thought hiding these would take care of the issue but it doesn't and worse, it means that they have to be hidden on the main intuuch site. Better would be the addition of a preference setting to the Facebook app that allows you to choose which feeds show up in your newsfeed and mini-feed on a case by case basis. I have written to the developers to request this. As you point out, they also need better support for RSS. In addition to RSS in, I'd like to see RSS out (like Plaxo Pulse) so I could bring the whole thing into my newsreader. These minor criticisms aside, intuuch has hit upon the right combination of ease of use, elegance, and timeliness. I wish them luck with it and plan to use it. In general I agree with your review. Intuuch is a nicely implemented approach to lifestreaming. You don’t mention the filtering, which allows you to hide any feeds you don’t want to show.

I haven’t had the issues with data not showing up but I have run into some issues with the Facebook app. Because I already use Facebook apps such as the official del.icio.us app, I am getting duplicates in my newsfeed and mini-feed. I thought hiding these would take care of the issue but it doesn’t and worse, it means that they have to be hidden on the main intuuch site.

Better would be the addition of a preference setting to the Facebook app that allows you to choose which feeds show up in your newsfeed and mini-feed on a case by case basis. I have written to the developers to request this.

As you point out, they also need better support for RSS. In addition to RSS in, I’d like to see RSS out (like Plaxo Pulse) so I could bring the whole thing into my newsreader.

These minor criticisms aside, intuuch has hit upon the right combination of ease of use, elegance, and timeliness. I wish them luck with it and plan to use it.

]]> By: Aleks http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-528 Aleks Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:40:24 +0000 http://lifestreamblog.com/super-slick-lifestreaming-with-intuuch/#comment-528 Thanks for reviewing intuuch! :) Aleks Intuuch Developer Thanks for reviewing intuuch! :)

Aleks
Intuuch Developer

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